Permanent Secretaries, for instance, are ‘Permanent Nothing’! If you are a permanent Secretary, what have you done to show that you are permanent? Why do we have permanent backwardness in a continent of Permanent Secretaries? [Read More]

African leaders should think afresh about the place of our continent in a rapidly globalising world. We suffered during the slave trade and the colonial period, which ushered us into a global trading regime, not as equal players but as appendages of metropolitan powers. Now we find ourselves unprepared and incapacitated to play the role we envisage for ourselves as equal partners and players, and as beneficiaries. [Read More]

Other people and nations have their ideas about what we should be doing, where we should be heading and who should be leading us now. We though, have our own. Or, at least, it is to be hoped that we do. It is fine to feel inspired to make compromises on behalf of other people but it’s dreadful to feel obliged to do this. [Read More]